CVE-2023-25169

MEDIUM 5.3CVE-2023-25169 · Published 06/03/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-25169 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability affecting discourse yearly review (discourse).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.44%, higher than 38.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
discourse yearly review discourse	`< 0.2`	`0.2`

Description

discourse-yearly-review is a discourse plugin which publishes an automated Year in Review topic. In affected versions a user present in a yearly review topic that is then anonymised will still have some data linked to its original account. This issue has been patched in commit `b3ab33bbf7` which is included in the latest version of the Discourse Yearly Review plugin. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable the `yearly_review_enabled` setting to fully mitigate the issue. Also, it's possible to edit the anonymised user's old data in the yearly review topics manually.

References

discourse/discourse-yearly-review commit b3ab33b · Patch
discourse/discourse-yearly-review security advisory · Mitigation

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